tonight the u.s. reportedly authorizes covert cia operations in libya while the libyan foreign minister defects to the u.k. but neither development seems to stop progress alfy forces repelling further rebel advances. were called some stabilizing the fukushima nuclear plant as groundwater radiation a rather facility reaches a bar review i. brush of close up trouble to siberia as doorstep where space travelers go welcome home from the world with joy the sigma chilled the streets.

below this is artsy for moscow when it was kevin owen it's now eight pm here and it's six and leaving in tripoli the top story the u.s. is reportedly sending cia teams into libya to gather intelligence and set up links with the rebels but it comes as doubts grow about the exact makeup of the movement to oust colonel gadhafi that's prompted criticism of plans to arm them with nato officials themselves admitting they fear that al-qaeda fighters are among the rebels are to fall asleep is got the latest from tripoli. but they have been a strikes in the east and south eastern suburbs of tripoli at a military base there while the front line seems to have been pushed ever so further back it is now not far from the town of ajdabiya which is just seventy kilometers weights of the rebel stronghold of benghazi and have been a number of coalition air strikes in and around i just out here with which simply doesn't trace that the coalition is afraid that gadhafi forces are closing in on

this town and also taking off once i drive your two for the gadhafi forces now the to rain. that a group of fighters are fighting on is working against him it is essentially one highway image is that it is very hard for them to get supplies and certainly at this stage it does seem as if this coalition is strikes are making very little difference nato has taken over the full command of all military operations here but increasingly the questions being posed not only by the international community are that they might be liberating the rebels at the surf is a very different scenario than the arab democratic revolutions that we saw internet and egypt all the big question on everyone's mind here is the whole question of weapons this is a concern a trip he has had from the beginning and it is a legal question whether or not that united nations resolution nine hundred seventy three actually allows for the arming of the rebel fighters the rebels have shown themselves to lack good leadership to be quite loosely organized and by large not

actually know how to use the weapons that they do have now we understand that about two to three weeks ago the american president barack obama reportedly signed a secret order that's all the deployment of cia agents to this country we understand that they have been making contact with the opposition fighters they've been assisting may needs determining the strains ironically though what tripoli is saying is that it might be a good thing that the discussion is now on the international table on the international agenda in terms of arming the rebels because it is forcing the international community to revisit the question of who is among the ranks underground gadhafi is winning the war but certainly he has been dealt a psychological blow to his foreign minister koussa has defected and he is currently in discussions with the british intelligence not concern has been a foreign minister of this country since two thousand and nine he headed the libyan intelligence agency for some fifteen years and opposition found him the nickname of the man of if he is gadhafi is white haired man he is trusted by gadhafi but he

certainly has been described as a shrewd operator by the international community so many here are asking what is it exactly that mr newsome koussa knows that has. caused him to defect and just how important can information he has be to the coalition partners. he fall asleep at the school paris know. the use of journalist specializing in the arab world thanks for being with us on r.t. so libya's foreign minister then and former spy chief. is in britain is respect seeking refuge in a country of course you mustn't forget which is accusing him of funding terrorism and being behind the lockerbie bombing seems a strange place to go to why is he gone to britain do you think. very much so it is a very strange place to go to having said that it seems to be a direct consequence of prime minister david cameron's call for kadar supporters to defect during the nato summit which was held on tuesday last tuesday prime minister

cameron explicitly said that he told the darkest supporters that if they didn't defect they will be taken to the international court and face trials for war crimes so that this defection can to be a direct consequence of that call and i think it was a very short term strategy from the british government in an attempt to. to an end or to. lead the gadhafi regime to collapse but i think that in the long term it's very unlikely that the u.k. will be given giving political asylum to someone who is very much seen as a controlling force behind the luckily well exactly and we do know today the prime minister david cameron says admissable not receive immunity from prosecution scottish prosecutors of course do want to question him do you think he'll ever see the inside of a british court at the end of the day or might there be some sort of deal done on the scenes. i think it's more likely for the british government to in fact

try to. take him to to face trial for war crimes there is still a lot of resentment regarding the lockerbie bombing in the u.k. and also i don't think there is much sympathy to be honest for someone who defects when everything goes wrong let's focus back here on libya now the coalition is considering not only arming but also training the rebels how long do you think it might take them to organize the opposition forces as you see it well we're talking about a country libya which has no history of political dissent there's of course no freedom of association of course no freedom of speech it's also a country where there is no military service which means that this is a nation where men haven't been trained to use weapons to carry out guns and as we've seen from many reports coming out of libya the rebels or the opposition

forces are made up of young men very well educated who are for the vast majority carry guns for the very first time and it will be very difficult indeed to help them to coordinate their action and to organize their actions so they are in a very difficult position and that's why they have been facing major reverses since they haven't been backed up by strikes from the nato coalition in the past forty eight hour another interesting your true story today the group had been guards who could speak for the rebel forces appointed khalif if a long time cia collaborative ahead its military operations what you make of that move. well i think the americans have made it abundantly clear from the very beginning first of all implicitly and increasingly more and more explicitly that

the end game here for them and for the u.k. and indeed the french is that it was not so much to protect the civilians but the civilian populations in libya. and gadhafi either physically or by killing him all by bringing about regime change it's no coincidence that he's pulled off his compound was hit on day two of the conflict and there have been intelligence services american intelligence services gathered at the borders of libya in the very early days of the rebellion we have also seen that the british. mission which was very embarrassing as it ended up it backfired effectively so i wouldn't be surprised that you know look an awful lot of effort is made to gather intelligence on the ground and what about the people of libya here opposition forces in the country say they're keen to get their hands on the country's oil production do you think the libyan people will eventually their fair

share of the riches or will it be taken away from them again much like you have been during gadhafi regime. well there is a lot of discord in fact within the nato coalition for example the french government has been very first one to recognize the national transitional council as the legitimate ruler of libya now britain has a very different position it doesn't recognize governments to recognize states so the transitional council doesn't have the same importance in france for example or in the u.k. so it's again a very dislocated group of people. and the it seems that they are take they are not you know very much representative of what's going on on the ground we are seeing very articulate people talking to various governments in europe but also to the americans where whereas on the ground we are seeing rebels

own driveways completely disorganized who do not have much of a. they do not seem to have any political points to make aside from of course getting rid of gadhafi ok well we'll get to your views in the program in paris a journalist specializing in the arab world thank you. what would be talking about there the united states has a lot of mixed history of supporting rebels in internal conflicts she's going to future can reports next tonight helping out anti-government forces can sometimes backfire. the international community permitted intervention in libya to protect civilians from colonel gadhafi but in launching the last of a further than that and is considering arming the rebels while officially denying that toppling khadafi is the objective of its involvement in libya we're broadening

our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake president obama has reportedly signed a secret order authorizing covert american support for rebel forces seeking to oust the lead in leader critics of the u.s. taking sides in a civil war war of the consequences we help accelerate the chaos. and in creating more chaos we're to we think somehow we're going to be able to direct the outcome it's the same hubris that has visited the united states and iraq the same hubris that keeps us opinion in afghanistan causes us to believe that somehow we are going to wreck events and the outcome in libya we cannot do that nor do we have the right to determine who the leader of libya should be many here radical forces could take advantage of the chaos in libya former jihadists nomen bennett men who renounced his ilk and in two thousand says he has

two mates one thousand jihadists are among the rebels in libya one b.b. and rebel commander has openly admitted his fighters have all the links other reports say terrorists seized libyan surface to air missiles when arsenals were looted nato intelligence reports claim flickers of al qaida and hezbollah have been found among the rebels in libya but maintained there is no reason to believe their presence is significant but a u.s. military study three years ago said lidia's made up the second largest group of jihadists in the war right after saudi arabia all of that seems to be discarded as the u.s. is trying to prop up the opposition in libya as some analysts say in an attempt to forge a relationship with them that would be favorable for the united states in the future but experts say as of now the opposition in libya hardly has a defined face or power these people. will not be able to take

control over the situation as soon as the current regime. goes off and that means that somebody else will be. tempted to take over the country and we know that the only will organize. the world force in the region not in the country but in the region is unfortunately some say arming the rebels could backfire we've been in this situation in afghanistan one day we help people and the next day they shoot at us if we are cautious about military intervention could blow back their charm was johnson johnson wrote famously about you sure to happen in libya in afghanistan back in the eighty's the u.s. had a narrow goal to help the mujahideen fight soviet troops subsequently the same with militants turned their weapons and training against the us among those of them was

osama bin ladin whose group of eventually evolved into al qaida this kind of strong cia and alice is an operations chief in the 1980's says back then the u.s. didn't see the dangers of arming afghan militants. and what we see were tribal society. you know interests separate tribes and leading to. the reconstruction of. over two decades after arming the afghan mujahedeen america is now considering giving weapons to another rebel band with an unclear identity simply because of who they're fighting against. going to check on our chief washington d.c. . lottie's paullus that is contributing to our twitter feed from tripoli you can get closer to all the details but really the probe what's really going on on the ground there in one of our latest tweets a teacher says that some people in tripoli think that arming the rebels would mean that the west is also effectively arming al qaida and find out more from us on

twitter and artillery school called on what websites read about our war correspondents life and called his personal. first. but you have to date now on the latest in japan tonight and work at the damaged fukushima nuclear plant speak hampered by the dangerously fluctuating radiation in and around the facility a highly radioactive substance has been found in groundwater near the plant which is ten thousand times more than normal the levels in nearby seawater to an estimated to be four half thousand times more than normal the highest figures recorded in the season is the beginning of a nuclear crisis experts say they think it may be caused by highly radioactive cooling water leaking from the plant also today the u.n.

has found contaminated soil forty kilometers from the facility and wants the twenty kilometer evacuation zone to be expanded but japan's government says the findings require no immediate action john largest independent nuclear consultant he says the crisis shows that your plan was ill prepared for the merge and see like this. problem is really the fundamental nuclear safety culture in japan and generally in the rest of the developed world is flawed what happened here is that the japanese considered this cascade earthquake fruita tsunami could never happen or would happen so infrequently but they didn't have to take account of it and as a result they never practice is never rehearsed for this type of accident and we can see affectively that the japanese for the first two weeks have been running around to coin an old english phrase like headless chickens not knowing what to do the real problem is this if they take a measure like flood in and quench in the reactors we water that may well lead to

serious consequences later on when they have all that accumulated water on site which is highly radioactive then they have to make a decision of how to deal with the water when to keep it in site in bond trenches or to actually discharge it to sleep with the consequences on the marine environment so whichever way they turn they've been ill prepared and they poorly planned for the consequences of this succeed in action the earthquake and tsunami which cause massive destruction of fukushima also wiped out entire communities people who lost their homes are living now in overcrowded shelters rather painstaking cleaner operation continues and that he got a gardener found out for us many will still have no to go even when it's complete. this is the first time many residents of ition a marquee have seen their houses since the tsunami has surged through them but in most a little of value remains but subtle shinji is not trying to salvage material possessions . my house was totally destroyed and my husband died in the tsunami now i'm

honoring him by getting his personal things out i just wish everything can go back to how it was. has been housed at the local school with several hundred others people here have been taken turns to volunteer as cooks and cleaners. the crown conditions mean that after nearly three weeks the communal spirit is frame and. we are dissatisfied with your thirty's we know there are temporary houses that will be put up but who will get them some areas are being favored over others. the government admits that not a single temporary house has been constructed so far but even when they do finally go up they won't solve the far greater problem. the government excavators are removing the rubble as fast as they can but for the victims of the disaster even those lucky enough to get the temporary housing it will be years before they can

come here rebuild their house and all of their home many of the stricken japanese coastal towns rely for generations on dwindling fishing and shipping industries livelihoods which no longer exist and there's little hope of ever getting them back . the government is good at solving big problems not the ones of the small people they do not think this town will ever be rebuild as it was even if i restore what i have no one will build anything next to my house. but the government providing food and temporary shelter for the relatively straightforward part in helping victims cope with it disaster making sure people have a place and a community to return to will be much more difficult. now of artsy. japan. three of the top will do stories to update you on a syrian state media is reporting that president assad is all of which seem to be formed to consider the removal of the country's decades of an urgency little's was

with him on the key demands of anti-government protests over the past month a move comes a day after the president dashed expectations that he denounced political reforms human rights groups say over one hundred people have been killed in government crackdowns on protests in the last two weeks. ivory coast's army chief is seeking refuge in the home of the south african ambassador it comes as the u.n. introduces sanctions against incumbent leader laurent gbagbo including freezing his assets and a travel ban meanwhile supporters of internationally backed president elect a son of retired reportedly push towards the main commercial city of abidjan a previously seized a key port than the capital as controlled continues to slip away from the refuses to quit. a bomber struck a convoy in northwestern pakistan in the second attempt on the life of a local islamist leader there thirteen people died and more than forty others were injured when a suicide bomber the motor by blew south up near the car of. rayment was on her

daily or another suicide attack on a crowd of roman supporters also killed thirteen lehmann's a hardline politician who'd been opposed to militant violence but also against pakistan's u.s. time is. next the russia closer team journeys to the city that provides a space age welcome for those returning from the final frontier. let's look at that map in we go the areas around two thousand kilometers east of moscow it marks the border between the mighty ural mountains in the harsh snowy siberia it's a three and a half million population it's an industrial heartland but the giant adjoining plane also makes it the perfect landing spot for cosmonauts and astronauts as our ridiculous ship found out.

months spent in space i mean stars and constellations orbiting the earth in zero gravity being a cosmonaut or an astronaut is no easy task. after their mission is complete and a return to earth mission for other men and women begins. obviously there is no telling where the land so in order to be prepared for anything it is possibly go wrong russian navy and russian space agency regularly exercises just a month before its scheduled landing so they could be spared for anything impact the rescue operation peaks off even before the capsule with cosmonauts lands of noise it's one of the most exciting moments hearing in your headphones that they got us on their radar they're watching us and following us that's awesome all the survival practices that we had won't be needed. but though this is how it usually

happens the search and rescue teams on land and know that it's better to be safe than sorry. such trainees are conducted regularly right before every when the objective is to test the condition of the equipment in the course of the preparedness of the personnel or a team has an extensive experience in this field and we are ready to work in any condition in. the process involves several teams of specially trained air force personnel from parachutists kinetic. finding the landing capsule opening it up there in the cosmos out into the open back on terra firma of course during the training one of the rescuers acts as a stand in for the cosmonauts the whole process normally takes twenty five to thirty minutes but in order to achieve such speed months of training are needed after all there are lives at stake and one of the most important factors and weather is also one of the most unpredictable. almost all of this is both there is

the hardest when helicopters confluent into the ground can get to the cosmonauts create them and get them to the nearest airfield we always have very little time and we must get them out as soon as possible because one of the hardly a little pressure working environment for their ward is priceless so we're just i'm glad to say for all cosmonauts we greatly respect you guys and really love us and i hope that all knowledge and lifesaving skills that you have will never be needed by you or us but time. into now been screeching. r t. ok to the sport in twenty minutes tonight said news of a big ice hockey imaginary guarin cup semifinals just one more win for labs would mean they get through to the finals for the first time i will check it out they're doing a bit later but back to the present at latest a third of my business next to him.

hello time for the business news proposals pie present that after overhaul stage companies are kicking up a storm even before they have been introduced the president wants to see government officials off the thoughts of state companies he's a is aren't missing worth putting together a hit list of kremlin officials who has tripped up their directorships. in many cases the board of directors is being led by government officials deputy prime ministers and ministers and examples of well known in finance it is bt and can bring it all in cassidy's rules and after searching and transport it is aeroflot and sheremetyevo leviton and financing and agriculture it is resell vote buying and of and there are other examples but we need to understand of course these officials will continue to have wide ranging powers to influence the activity of these institutions. which is quite difficult well it's all part of the president's call for juicing government employers and stage companies increasing

their transparency and pushing privatization and regulations aimed at helping russia attract more investors. well time to have a quick look at how the markets are faring this hour we got strong so down this hour after the government report of a smaller than expected properly we don't list claims the labor department said new applications for employment benefits fell to three hundred eighty eight thousand traders will be watching friday's march jobs report to whether the federal reserve will raise interest rates. and european stocks closed in the red on thursday with a focus a losing almost point seven percent banking stocks gave up the session gains ahead of the results of irish bank stress tests the biggest decline of though was their masteries sterling's missed call. on the russian markets finished mixed with less than half a percent while the mice it's just ten times. a

look at some of the individual share moves most energy majors saw most of the first day ross now finished down one point six percent gazprom last point one percent banking stocks were also down was of course percent on the my six dollars national spirit of capital trading day. every market has been really quite flat today the big story has obviously been around. the president made comments about the potential change board of directors. actually as a result of that and i think. really underperform today and i think that reflects you know uncertainty what does this actually mean for so for for obviously thirty was a big story. the world's biggest producer and sol house posted a more than three fold increase in net profit figures twenty ten show revenues were

up by a third to ten billion dollars with a profit of two point eight billion dishonest traded on the hong kong markets and shares have been up almost ifas and on the news the company says it plans to expand production in twenty eleven. ok that wraps up the business bulletin for now jordan in less than last time for more business stories here on our.

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